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I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based. I’d rather pay $5 a month and have no ads or tracking of any kind. They can even run a separate fork of Firefox

I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based. I’d rather pay $5 a month and have no ads or tracking of any kind. They can even run a separate fork of Firefox or something for this purpose. If Firefox goes down Google will lock internet behind a DRM and we gonna need another rms or Torvalds to deliver us from this hell. Can you imagine a world without Linux, with Windows and Mac pretty much the only mainstream alternative? I’d rather pay a small fee not to have that.

fifteen1506 2y ago
No subscription for me tyvm. I do donate on average €2/month for various projects, though.
- beretguy 2y ago
  Yes, I understand.
Marsymars 2y ago
Paid web browsers have been tried... Opera and OmniWeb probably the most notable examples, and it just doesn't seem like there's a workable market there.
- beretguy 2y ago
  Yeah, but I don’t think we had Google trying to lock internet behind a DRM at the time.
- int_19h 2y ago
  Things have changed. We have paid search engines now, and they don't seem to be having a problem finding customers.
xnyan 2y ago
>Windows and Mac pretty much the only mainstream alternative That's not the world we live in today?
- beretguy 2y ago
  We have Linux to choose from. Imaging we didn’t have that option.
JohnFen 2y ago
> I’d rather they make Firefox subscription based. Software subscriptions are a hard "no" for me. Even if I loved literally everything else about Firefox, if they did this I'd have to stop using it.